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We insurrectioned and, be the procuratress of the hory synnotts, before he could tell pullyirragun to parrylewis, I shuttm, missus, like a wide sleever!
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Everybody goes home in a sentimental glow and the native born working-man reads his _Sydney Bulletin_ over a long-sleever and execrates the name of the country which bore his father and mother.
Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray
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Steady, me boy, these long sleever glasses hold a pint.
Tom Gerrard Louis Becke 1884
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So, if you want to join the T-Shirts for Jackson contest, please deliver your short-sleever to the bar man pictured above at Sanlitun Salud (map).
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So, if you want to join the T-Shirts for Jackson contest, please deliver your short-sleever to the bar man pictured above at Sanlitun Salud (map).
reesetee commented on the word sleever
From OED: Thirteen fluid ounces, or 2 3/5ths gills, imperial measure, a customary Welsh measure.
November 5, 2008